Echoes of Genius: From the Dawn of Electrical Recording to Hidden Violin Treasures
Rare and revelatory, these archival releases span a century of recording history – from the...
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Au douz tens nouvel: Chansons de trouveres
The start of this recital promises something bracingly ahistorical: the aeolian wind and unpitched instrumental sounds might have come straight...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024
VIADANA Sacri concentus
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s groundbreaking Cento Concerti ecclesiastici (Venice, 1602) was the first publication of sacred music to include mandatory...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2024
CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works
Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
M BERKELEY Collaborations
Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley (76 years...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024
Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)
Recorded in the Salle Colonne, Paris, in 2021, Aurélien Pontier’s album is ‘an act of homage to the Vienna of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings
Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge – two names which I suspect will be unfamiliar to many readers. Almost exact...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)
Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen covers much of the same ground in this album of keyboard works by the English virginalists...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
Fazil Say: Morning/Evening
A disc arrives for review, you see the name of the artist(s), you survey the repertoire and already your critical...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Handel Remembered (Kenneth Hamilton)
Kenneth Hamilton’s writings about Romantic performance practice are always erudite, insightful, vividly expressed and delightfully witty, and this holds true...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
SWEELINCK Keyboard Works (Andrea Vivanet)
The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet is smart to mix a representative spectrum of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s basic compositional forms –...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Myra Hess: a national treasure revisited in Jessica Duchen’s biography
A compelling portrait of the iconic wartime pianist and cultural hero, brought vividly to life in a...
Mahler in miniature: Stephen Downes delivers a witty, wry portrait for the Critical Lives series
Downes blends biography, pop culture, and provocative insight in this punchy Critical Lives entry
Michel Béroff at 75: Erato's monumental box-set celebrates a brilliant and versatile pianist
Jed Distler revisits the Frenchman’s EMI and Erato recordings in a new 42-disc set
New box-sets: Beethoven from Barenboim, Arrau and Klemperer, plus Irmgard Seefried Edition
Rob Cowan on a bumper Beethoven crop and the voice of a seraphic soprano
Fell Audio debuts with British-made hi-fi duo offering style, substance, and value
A new name on the audio scene, courtesy of a British hi-fi retailer launching a ‘house brand’: and...
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